This paper shows that foreign aid in postwar Lebanon passed through two phases with distinct features that have had far reaching implications for postwar development. In the first phase lasting from 1992-97, foreign aid was mainly channelled towards providing resources for postwar reconstruction projects. The second phase from 1997 to the present witnessed a qualitative shift in foreign aid uti...

The Center for Global Development (CGD) has been working on a new approach to foreign aid called Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) in which donors commit to make payments in direct proportion to measured progress towards a shared objective. The COD Aid approach builds on a trend in foreign aid modalities to pay for results and give greater autonomy to recipient countries in determining how to spen...

Participatory development has become, ‘development orthodoxy’, receiving widespread proclamations of support from foreign aid agencies. engages international beneficiaries in making decisions about project activity selection and design. Yet, many donors deliver assistance through top-down, highly controlled systems that may constrain the flexibility needed to delegate decision-making power bene...

Introduction: Geopolitics and aid Foreign aid is an essential element of foreign policy for many countries. Since World War I, the richest states in the world have used transfers of goods, services, and funds as a means of interacting with other countries. Over time, increasing numbers of states have given increasing amounts of resources to other states. Aid has come in the form both of loans, ...

This short paper explores the complementarity between foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI). Recent studies on aid concluded that aid should come to an end or be reduced with a radical modification of the terms and conditions and FDI and trade should replace aid as the engine of development. In this paper, we argue that aid complements FDI and advances the efficacy of FDI in promoting...

This paper develops a model to study the effects of foreign aid on the creation and distribution of wealth in the recipient country. It considers three types of foreign aid: permanent grants to all individuals, temporary grants to uneducated workers, and foreign aid in the form of low interest rate loans to individuals who invest in education. The model shows that the economy may have two long-...

The distinctiveness of aid to economic growth and development developing countries has stirred up discussions over the years. conventional arguments have sought evince both optimistic pessimistic views about in Africa while at same time studies are copiously emerging around Chinese Africa’s within broader China-Africa engagements. This article interrogates dynamics surrounding subject examine f...

Understanding the role of foreign aid in poverty alleviation is one of the central inquiries for development economics. To augment past crosscountry studies and randomized evaluations, this project estimates the first sub-national model of foreign aid allocation and impact. Newly geocoded aid project data from Malawi is used in combination with multiple rounds of living standards data to predic...

BACKGROUND Nepal has been receiving foreign aid since the early 1950s. Currently, the country's health care system is heavily dependent on aid, even for the provision of basic health services to its people. Globally, the mechanism for the dispersal of foreign aid is becoming increasingly complex. Numerous stakeholders are involved at various levels: donors, intermediary organisations, project-i...